Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- I: SITUATING SURVEILLANCE -- 1 Introduction: Body, Soul and Credit Card -- Surveillance in Everyday Life -- Surveillance in Modern Society -- The Social Impact of Technology -- Technology and Totalitarianism -- The Problem of Privacy -- Personhood and Postmodernity -- Understanding Surveillance Society -- 2 Surveillance in Modern Society -- A Prehistory of Surveillance -- Surveillance and Modernity -- The Military, War and Modern Surveillance -- The Nation-State and Modern Surveillance -- Capitalism and Modern Surveillance -- Surveillance, Modernity and Beyond -- 3 New Surveillance Technologies -- From Papermongers to Databanks -- The Difference Technology Makes -- What Do Computers Do? -- New Technology and Surveillance Capacity -- New Technologies: New Surveillance? -- New Surveillance: Evidence and Debate -- 4 From Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon -- The Police State and the Prison -- Orwell's Dystopia -- The Panopticon from Bentham to Foucault -- Electronic Surveillance: Panoptic Power? -- Evaluating Electronic Panopticism -- Beyond Orwell, Bentham and Foucault -- II: SURVEILLANCE TRENDS -- 5 The Surveillance State: Keeping Tabs on You -- You and Your Data-Image -- The Surveillance State -- A Political Economy of New Surveillance -- New Technologies and Surveillance Capacity -- From Crib to Coffin: Fine-grained Files -- Managing Health Care Spending: The Ontario Health Card -- Administration, Computers and Beyond -- 6 The Surveillance State: From Tabs to Tags -- Spiderman's Solution -- Electronic Identification -- Computers that Converse: Record Linkage -- Police Computers: Command and Control -- Computerizing National Security -- State Surveillance, Citizenship and Globalization -- 7 The Transparent Worker -- Chaplin and Chips -- The Watched Workplace -- Taylorism and Technology.

Towards Disorganized Surveillance? -- The Transparent Worker -- Computer-Intensified Surveillance -- Post-Fordism, Disorganized Surveillance and Beyond -- 8 The Targeted Consumer -- Junk Mail Marketing -- Taylorism Transposed? -- The Domestic Threshold -- New Technologies for Surveillance?: Caller ID and Smart Cards -- Data Entrepreneurs and Strategic Information -- Commercial Surveillance Capacities -- Consumerism and Surveillance Theory -- III: COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE -- 9 Challenging Surveillance -- The Challenge of and the Challenge to -- The Challenge of Surveillance -- The Challenge to Surveillance: I Privacy Law -- The Challenge to Surveillance: II Social Movements -- Beyond the Watershed -- 10 Privacy, Power, Persons -- Mirages of Modernity? -- Privacy Invaded -- The Public and the Private -- Diminishing Private Space? -- Privacy and Property -- Privacy or Autonomy? -- A Superpanopticon? -- Surveillance and Personhood -- Beyond Privacy -- 11 Against Dystopia, Distance, Division -- Real-Time Dystopia -- Dystopia in Surveillance Theory -- Is Seeing Knowing? -- Confessing, Controlling, Confidence -- From LA to the Other City -- Towards an Alternative -- 12 Beyond Postmodern Paranoia -- Postmodern Paranoids -- Surveillance Society Today -- For the Future -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.